The Danish steamer G. Koch (1888) aground off Dolor Point, Coverack.

An elevated and distant port bow view of the Danish cargo steamer G Koch (1888) ashore alongside Dolor Point in Perprean Cove. In the background are the Coastguard cottage of Coverack running down Dolor Point to the sea. To the north of Dolor Point are two salvage vessels at anchor.

G Koch was bound from Hamburg to Cardiff with a load of coal for Las Palmas when it ran aground off Dolor Point on 7 March 1904. It was refloated two weeks later by the Western Marine Salvage Co and continued trading until wrecked near the Girdleness Lighthouse, Aberdeen in January 1913 with the loss of seven lives.

Object Details

ID: G13999
Collection: Historic Photographs
Type: Glass plate negative
Display location: Not on display
Creator: Gibson & Sons of Scilly
Vessels: G Koch (1888)
Date made: March 1904
Credit: National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck Collection
Measurements: Overall: 254 mm x 304 mm